Outdoor Film Showing – Silent Running

As part of both Chelsea Fringe and the Herne Hill Film Festival we will be having an outdoor showing of the 1971 sci-fi classic botanically themed Silent Running starring Bruce Dern. www.chelseafringe.com www.freefilmfestivals.org/filmfestival/herne-hill/

In the distant future, plant life on our planet is extinct. Remaining specimens are cultivated in vast greenhouse-like domes orbiting in space. Bruce Dern stars as Freeman Lowell, dedicated botanist aboard the “Valley Forge”, awaiting the call to refoliate Earth – despite the scorn of his crewmates.

When an order comes to instead destroy the domes and return home, Lowell takes matters into his own hands, beginning a long and lonely voyage into the unknown. With its remarkable special effects (especially the robot drones Huey, Dewey, and Louie); glorious score (including songs performed by Joan Baez); memorable sound effects (created by Joseph Byrd from the cult band The United States of America); a screenplay co-written by Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter) and Steven Bochco (Hill Street Blues), and an impassioned central performance from Dern, Silent Running remains a uniquely contemplative and haunting adventure that continues to make hippies of young children, even today.

Hopefully this will be shown outside, wear warm clothes. Limited numbers, please book by phone. Refreshments available.
If wet, we will show the film inside. This is a free event.